BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are continuing to investigate what caused a fatal plane crash on Monday, June 10, in Washtenaw County.
Officials confirmed Kevin Kreger, a 46-year-old man from Dearborn, was the instructor who died in the crash. A 22-year-old student -- a man from North Carolina studying at the University of Michigan -- was injured.
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Ron Jansen owns the land where the crash took place. He and so many others will be waiting patiently to see the results from the NTSB’s investigation of what happened in the air, causing a flight instructor to be killed and a student to be injured in critical condition.
“It’s a shame, but what are you going to do?” Jansen said. “Right now, you don’t know it was he first time out. If he did something he wasn’t supposed to do. Whether it fuel failure? We just have to wait till things play out so we’ll know exactly what happened.”
Kreger was an instructor at Solo Aviation located at Ann Arbor Municipal Airport, the same place the single-engine aircraft took off from before crashing. Jansen said he saw the survivor being pulled from the wreckage.
“He certainly was showing signs that he was maybe going to be OK,” Jansen recalled. “ He had hand movements and arm movements and stuff like that,”
Kreger also reportedly worked as a chiropractor with his own office in Dearborn. He left behind a family that has been completely taken back by the loss.